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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Misuse of the system folder...
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.233810.24181@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 23:38:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.093946.22779@allgfx.agi.oz> tkav@allgfx.agi.oz (Tony Kavadias) writes:
>
>There are a couple of suggestions which I would like to offer...
>
>     a) place all non-sharable files outside the system folder.  The best
>          place to keep them would be in the same folder as the application.
>
>     b) for little things like preferences and other application-specific
>          details, put them in the application file's data fork.  They will
>          be hidden, save the system folder from congestion, and do their job.

Both A and B have the same problem:  The System Folder is the ONLY guaranteed-
writeable spot on the system. 

>If I find another application which installs application-specific files inside
>the system folder, I'll send the Grim Reaper onto them (just kidding guys!)
>
>I mean, Apple did not develop the system folder for all your garbage!

They made it so it is the only practical spot for it (7.0 has a Preferences
folder for 'all our garbage'..
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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